SATHISH CHALLA

Mobile No.: +91-9845190676

E-Mail: sathish.challa@gmail.com
: www.linkedin.com/in/sathishchalla

Senior IT Professional

~Application Programming/ Software Development~

Preferred Industry: IT
Extensive exposure in scaling start-up company to more than 120 team members
P R O F I L E S U M M A RY

A seasoned professional with 15 years of proven success in:

~ Products inception to roll-out
~ Release management and control
~ Agile Scrum
master
~ DevOps culture
~ Process, tooling improvements ~ Staff performance management
~ Crossfunctional Coordination
~ Ideate product
Skilled in developing applications and tools; proficiency in defining and adhering the process in
engineering team (development, testing, & support)
Instrumental in operational requirements of products like failover and scalability, benchmarking,
security aspects and monitoring of production applications
Successfully generated idea of designing B2C Cloud Application within 6 months and enabled
company to leverage the new revenue line in iPass India Pvt. Ltd. (GoRemote India Pvt. Ltd.),
Bangalore
Proficient in saving OpEx for company by providing good level of automation in provisioning and
tech support to operational departments
Impressive fast track career driven by challenges and desire to be successful, with an expertise in
leading multiple projects, also successfully completed projects based on CMM-L3 and Agile
Methodologies
Possess interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with demonstrated abilities in team
management

O R G A N I Z AT I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
iPass India Pvt. Ltd. (GoRemote India Pvt. Ltd., formerly known as GRIC India Pvt. Ltd.),
Bangalore
Sep01 to Oct14
Growth Path:
Sep01 to Sep02
Sep02 to Sep04
Sep04 to Feb07
Feb07 to Sep10
Sep10 to Oct14

Sr. Software Engineer

Project Leader
Sr. Project Leader
Engineering Manager
Sr. Engineering Manager

Key Result Areas:

Mapped requirements & providing them best solutions involving evaluation & definition of scope of
project and contributing in the finalization of project requirements
Performed competitor products analysis and product council discussions
Designed, developed, tested, troubleshot the applications
Managed smooth implementation and testing of the application at client location
Interacted with the Client & System Engineering Team for requirement gathering & scoping;
designed the solution for the product, managed the process set-up and monitored development
Provided post-implementation, enhancement and maintenance support to client for application
Implemented solutions that effectively resolve problems or provide improvement based solutions
Highlights:
Bagged Certificate of Idea Tank Award for generating, developing and successful rolling out B2C
product idea
Recognized as Best Employee of Quarter Award on successfully handling the acquisition of products
Holds the credit of handling engineering responsibilities of products worth $30M revenue

Ideated and rolled out B2C Cloud Application within 6 months and enabled company to leverage the
new revenue line
Diligently investigated and presented the business case on usage of RSA-secure Id on Auth Fabric
Products
Provided required EAP protocols support on AAA Auth Fabric Compliance to 802.1x Authentication
Took initiatives to introduce XP Methodology first in the organization and benefited the organization
for iterative model of development and faster delivery of product features with quality
Helped organization to get CMM-level3 Compliance that is key before starting M&A activities
Managed major back office server infrastructure products for mobility and unity business lines (6+
Products for mobility business and 10+ products for unity business)
Successfully:
o Achieved high success rate and saved cost by migrating the mission critical auth fabric cloud
platform for the mobility business to new tech stack with good monitoring capabilities
o Introduced Load Testing Methodologies using JMeter and Selenium Tools that created bench
marking baseline for org and improved capacity of products
Diligently increased sales success with innovative features on customer facing portal by providing
data analytics, maps, heat maps and trend analysis
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Alcatel Internetworking India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as Software Engineer

Apr00 to Sep01
Highlight:
Diligently worked on SNMP & NMS Products and one of the module (PolicyView) of Best Breed of
NMS Product (Omnivista) of Alcatel Switches/Routers
Global Info Systems India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad as Trainee Software Engineer
Sep99 to Mar00
Highlights:
Actively took part in:
o Performing requirements analysis and module developments required for the product
o Processing the integration of different systems/technologies for an enterprise application
T R A I N I N G S AT T E N D E D

AWS Essentials (AWSome Day - 2014, Bangalore)

7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Franklin Covey Institute Signature Program)
Management Program Workshops on becoming a Leader, Time Management, Leadership
iCMG Enterprise Architecture Training
PML-2004
CMM Level-3 Training
Training on Interviewing Skills
Sun Tech Days 2002
E D U C AT I O N

BE (Computer Science and Engineering) from PREC, Pravara Nagar, Ahmednagar District, Poona
University in 1998
IT SKILLS

Web Stack:
RIA:
JEE Stack:
TDD:
Testing/Performance Tools:
Protocols:
SSO Frameworks:

Apache, Perl, JavaScript, JQuery, Cardova/Phonegap, shell scripts

Flex, ActionScript
Struts MVC, Hibernate, JBoss, JMX, Oracle, SOAP, REST API Webservices,
Oracle, MySQL
Junit, HTTPUnit
Incontainer Testing, Selenium, Silktest, Silk Performer, JMeter, YSlow,
Pagespeed, log analyzers
AAA Radius, EAP Protocols, SNMP
JSSO, CAS

Wireframes:
SCM:
Static Code Analyzers:
Profilers:
CI:
Security tools
Project Mgmt

iRise, ForeUI
cvs, svn, perforce, git
FindBugs, JTest
OptimizeIt, JProfiler
Ant, Maven, Cruisecontrol, Teamcity
WebInspect, Qualysgaurd
Sharepoint, InfoPath, MPP, Agile Rally, Kanban board, Excel, PPT, Risk
mgmt plans
C E R T I F I C AT I O N S

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P E R S O N A L D E TA I L S
Date of Birth:
Address:
Languages Known:

05-Dec-1973
202, Camden Castle Apartment, 16 B cross, 1 Main Road, Pai Layout,
Bangalore-560016
English, Hindi and Telugu